[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS on 2.4.26 ? OpenMosix ?

[Miles Davis]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 09:15:44AM -0500, Terry Gliedt wrote:
> 
> I can now confirm the combination of a  2.4.26 kernel  + 1.3.73 OpenAFS 
> works just fine. Adding OpenMosix will immediately results in this symptom:
> 
>   SSH with X11 forwarding to OpenMosix+OpenAFS machine
>   Observe messages about a fail in locking .Xauthority file
> 
> What apparently is happening is that as X11 attempts to add a new entry 
> to .Xauthority, it creates .Xauthority-n and presumably does a move 
> which fails. This results in the user's .Xauthority "disappearing". A 
> simple 'mv .Xauthority-n .Xauthority' allows X11 to work properly again.
> 
> I presume this has something to do with locking, but that's just my 
> guess. I've seen other strangeness in AFS behavior also which may be 
> related (or not), however the ssh scenario I mention above has been my 
> lithmus test.

I've had that happen several times on 1.3.73 clients, so it probably has 
nothing to do with openMosix. I haven't tried 1.3.74 yet, but you should 
probably give that a try.


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